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Estimating Copilot Cowork Costs: How to Forecast AI Usage
Microsoft Copilot Cowork introduces a new way of working with AI, and a new way of budgeting it. Unlike traditional Microsoft 365 licensing, where organizations can forecast costs largely by counting seats, Copilot Cowork uses a consumption-based model. Organizations still need Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing, but Copilot Cowork activity is billed separately based [...]
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Explained: What Leaders Need to Know
For the past two years, most conversations about AI in the workplace have focused on productivity. How can AI help employees draft emails faster, summarize meetings more efficiently, or create presentations with less effort? Microsoft Copilot answered many of those questions. Copilot Cowork introduces [...]
What Copilot in SharePoint Actually Means for Your Intranet
Microsoft is moving quickly with how AI shows up in SharePoint. Every few weeks there seems to be a new announcement, a new feature, or a new promise about how AI will transform the modern intranet. AI-powered pages. Smarter content creation. Enhanced search experiences. [...]
What Copilot in SharePoint Actually Means for Your Intranet
SharePoint AI is moving fast. New features, new announcements, new promises, every week. But here’s the real challenge: What matters for your intranet right now…and what doesn’t? Some of what Microsoft has released is genuinely useful today. Some of it depends heavily on how your [...]
Operating Model for Copilot at Scale: An Adoption Structure for Enterprise AI Success
Most organizations we work with have already purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. Many have even completed a pilot. But six months in, the question we hear most often is the same one: why aren't more people using it? The answer is rarely a technology problem. It's an adoption problem — [...]
The SharePoint App Bar Redesign
The SharePoint App Bar Redesign: A Shift in How Work Actually Happens Before the SharePoint app bar, there was no out of the box global navigation in SharePoint Online. Every site operated with its own navigation and often there was [...]
Is Now the Right Time to Invest in a Microsoft 365 Upgrade?
Yes, if your organization is on Microsoft 365 E3 or E5, 2026 may be the right time to upgrade. Five signals point in that direction: July 1, 2026 price increases, the arrival of Microsoft 365 E7 with bundled AI capabilities, growing security and compliance requirements, hidden [...]
Internal Comms Strategy in the Age of AI: Why Content Planning Matters
Internal communication has always been about helping people understand what matters, what’s changing, and what they need to do next. But that job is getting harder. Employees are navigating more channels, more content, and more noise. At the same time, communicators are being asked to move [...]
Webinar Recap- Your Intranet Isn’t Ready for Copilot. Here’s What To Do First
Copilot is changing how employees find and interpret information. But for many organizations, the intranet content Copilot relies on is outdated, duplicated, unowned, or poorly structured. In our recent webinar, “Your Intranet Isn't Ready for Copilot. Here's What To Do First,” Creospark and Fresh [...]
Automation in a Day
Possibilities are limitless, but time is not. Discover a better way to get things done across your organization by streamlining repetitive tasks and business processes. Automation in a Day (AuIAD) is a beginner-level training designed for everyone to learn automation using Power Automate and Power [...]
Webinar Recap-Reduce Microsoft 365 Licensing Costs Before Your Next Renewal
Microsoft 365 licensing is changing, and for many organizations, the next renewal could be more expensive than expected. In our recent webinar, "Stop Overpaying for Microsoft 365: A Practical Licensing Cleanup Before Your Next Renewal," we walked through what’s changing, where organizations commonly overspend, and [...]
Is It Worth the Money? The Real ROI of AI in 2026
Every leadership team is asking the same question right now Are we actually getting value from AI or just increasing our spend? Over the past two years, organizations have moved quickly from experimentation to deployment. Tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot [...]
Skills in Copilot in SharePoint for Regulated Industries
Part 3 of a series on Skills in Copilot in SharePoint. Start with Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills or read Getting Started with Skills. Picture this: it's 9:08 a.m., and a team inbox lights up with a request that sounds simple. "Please provide all records related to X." In reality, it triggers a [...]
Webinar Recap – Is Microsoft 365 E7 Worth It?
Microsoft 365 licensing has changed and this time, it's not just a pricing update. In our recent webinar, we explored a question that's now landing on the desks of IT leaders, security teams, finance, and procurement simultaneously: Is Microsoft 365 E7 actually worth it? [...]
Agents Are Users. It’s Time to Secure Them Like One.
Are AI agents in Microsoft 365 treated like users? Yes and they must be managed as such. In the Microsoft 365 environment, AI agents independently access data, trigger workflows, and make decisions. Microsoft Agent 365 provides the centralized control plane to govern, monitor, and [...]
Extending AI in SharePoint with Skills: Teaching AI in SharePoint to Work the Way You Do
Here's a challenge most organizations quietly wrestle with: AI tools are generic by design. They respond well to broad questions but struggle with the specifics that make your organization tick such as your naming conventions, your review processes, the way your team builds a [...]
Webinar Recap – AI-Assisted Legal Workflows: Practical Automation for Legal Teams
How can legal teams automate workflows using Copilot and Power Automate? Legal teams today are under increasing pressure to move faster, manage growing workloads, and maintain accuracy all without scaling headcount at the same pace. In our recent webinar, we explored how organizations can [...]
Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 vs E7: Which is the right plan for your business?
With the release of Microsoft 365 E7 coming to the general public May 1, 2026, it’s time for businesses to consider which plan is the best for them. Each enterprise tier has its own features and strengths, and we’ll dive into each one. What's included in Microsoft 365 E3? [...]
How Vibe Coding in the Power Platform Is Challenging Legal SaaS
Goodbye iManage? That question may sound dramatic, but it is becoming harder for law firms to ignore. Vibe coding lowers the cost of experimentation in legal technology. For firms that are already investing in Microsoft 365, this shift is less about replacing vendors and [...]
Microsoft 365 E7 Licensing: Big Shift Towards AI as a Core Enterprise Platform
Early this year, Microsoft signaled a potential Microsoft 365 E7 licensing tier. For years, enterprise customers have speculated whether an E7 plan would follow E5, especially as Microsoft continues layering separately priced capability onto existing plans. Initially, the idea seemed unlikely. The January 2026 episode of Directions [...]
